by Brad Singletary, LCSW | May 16, 2024
Fighting your day is exhausting, and most of the time you lose anyway. The bad driver who cuts you off, the meeting that runs long, the plan that falls apart before noon. You can rage against all of it, or you can decide to move with it instead of against it....
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 19, 2024
I spend my professional life trying to understand people. It is literally what I do. Someone sits across from me and I am working to see the world through their eyes, to trace the thread from where they are back to where it started. I am good at it, and I genuinely...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 12, 2024
I have failed at this. More times than I want to count. So when I say this, I’m not talking down from some high ground I’ve always occupied. I’m talking from the mess I’ve made when I missed it. Women often lead with the surface layer. What...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 9, 2024
I sat with someone recently who had tried to save a life and couldn’t. The guilt was overwhelming. The second-guessing was relentless. Every moment they’d spent trying to help was being run back through a filter of “what if I had done it...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 7, 2024
You are talking to yourself constantly. Right now, actually. There’s a voice running in the background of everything you do, every decision you make, every mistake you notice. That voice has been there your entire life. And for most people, it is not kind. Most...
